I hate having livetv files so much that I edited the menu to disable the function. Too bad, I actually liked being able to pause livetv every now and then (or to surf and use the guide info).
On 11/23/05, Adam Egger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/22/05, Chris Pinkham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The new autoexpire method doesn't work for the LiveTV recordings on my > > > system. I have tons of tiny files in my recording list marked with an > > > RIP symbol now. > > > > Doesn't sound like you're running current SVN. > > I'm updating on a daily basis, so the revision I'm using now is now ~ 8000. > > > > My autoexpire is turned off globally because I absolutely don't want > > > myth to remove any recorded files, because everything I record I > > > really want to keep. Now I turned Autoexpire to on but the small files > > > still don't disappear. > > > > How did you turn it On/Off since that setting went away in database schema > > update 1105 in Changeset 7863? > > > > http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7863 > > Ok, I just didn't set autoexpire to "On" expicitly, so I assume it was > automatically set to On in [7863]. I switched from "oldest first" to > "lowest recording priority" but it still doesn't remove anything. > > > > I've started the backend with -v file, now it shows me that the "Do > > > not autoexpire" list is growing: > > > > And it may a little while you're watching LiveTV, but yours looks weird. > > The do not expire list contains items from the inuseprograms table which is > > cleaned up automatically whenever a NuppelVideoPlayer exits or a recorder > > finishes. Were you killing and restarting the backend or anything? The > > cleanup of stray entries in this table`happens once a day in the > > housekeeper. > > I stopped my backend quite often yesterday to check if a BE restart > removes the recorded files. But really nothing helps, I have more than > one hundred LiveTV entries in my recording list now (all of them are < > 1 minute). > > > Long LiveTV recordings (ie, > 1 minute long) will expire the same as normal > > programs but htey have their autoexpire field set to 10000 which causes > > LiveTV recordings to expire before normal recordings. > > Does a manual switch from LiveTV to another recording group on a > specific recording reset the high autoexpire value as well? > > System data: > Debian32 sid > Kernel 2.6.14 > reiserfs 3.6 > MythTV from SVN - Revision 8000 > Using DVB-t in Germany with b2c2_flexcop_pci / skystar2 > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
